Example sentences of "that [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Table 2.4 shows that only around a dozen cases are mentioned in more than four of the sixteen newspapers in the study . |
| 2 | European Community officials have admitted that only around a third of the funds allocated in 1991 and 1992 to help Easter European countries to improve safety at their nuclear power plants has actually been spent . |
| 3 | In addition it was suggested that only about a quarter of the earlier sample of women had used birth control methods other than withdrawal compared with 57 per cent of the latter group . |
| 4 | Questionnaires sent out as part of the HSC employment department 's 1990 labour force survey showed that only about a third of reportable accidents appear in official statistics , that 2 million people have illnesses they believe are caused or made worse by work , and that work related accidents and ill health are probably resulting in about 30m days off work a year in the UK . |
| 5 | In practice , not all fires were used at the peak , but even at the higher real prewar price levels , research had shown that only about a third of the costs imposed by the peak space heating demand were being recovered in contemporary domestic tariffs . |
| 6 | Calvin Hall 's large survey of dream content showed that only about a third of the total number of dreams reported contained references to colour . |
| 7 | Algorithms detect most high risk patients , both young and old , and risk factor stratification shows that in about a third of them there is a likely or predominant initiating mechanism that is amenable to specific treatment — for example , paroxysmal atrial fibrillation with amiodarone ; an accessory pathway with ablation ; a gradient with β blockers , calcium antagonists , or myectomy ; conduction disease with a pacemaker ; refractory sustained ventricular arrhythmias with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator ; and relative ischaemia in the presence of normal coronary vessels with nitrates and calcium antagonists . |
| 8 | What makes the sex distribution of these cats so odd is that normally only a female kitten can display black patches inherited from one parent and red tabby patches inherited from the other . |
| 9 | Is the Prime Minister aware that just over an hour ago I received a letter from British Alcan , which has a factory in my constituency at Falkirk , informing me that 169 of the work force will lose their jobs , not because they are inefficient but because the machinery on which they work is 50 years old ? |
| 10 | It was the Collector 's hope that thus even a few men would be able to keep up a heavy fire . |
| 11 | It was obvious that not just a few houses , but whole districts including churches , monasteries , and other monuments to past glories would have to be swept aside to allow for the fill appreciation of the splendour of the glorious new order . |
| 12 | ‘ But so rotten has the policy proved that not even a ‘ taxpayer bail-out ’ could save it . |
| 13 | So that not even a sparrow shall fall to the ground unnoticed by Him ’ . |
| 14 | This is something that not even a Washoe or Lucy , far less a baby calf , begins to approach . |
| 15 | Why trim the grass so short that not even a goat could get its incisors into the chlorophyl ? |
| 16 | The harbour was crowded with boats berthed two and three abreast but the market sheds were empty , sluiced down so that not even a small of fish remained . |
| 17 | Another restless night followed , and she determinedly settled down to work again the next morning , concentrating hard on the illustrations so that not even a tiny corner of her mind was free to think about Julius . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm saying that not even a ten-year-old would fall for the line of crap you just had me feed Kevin . ’ |
| 19 | Despite pleas from both Spanner and the referee I insisted that the match go ahead , pointing out that not only a principle but also three certain points were at stake . |
| 20 | No I find that usually quite a mixed crowd goes to it . |
| 21 | Remember that whenever either a conveyance , lease or transfer defines the land by reference to a plan attached to the document , the plan must be signed ( sealed and attested by director and secretary in the case of a company ) by all parties — except that the conveyancer for buyers can sign on their behalf if they state the capacity in which they sign it : " solicitor for the transferee . " |
| 22 | It further notes that the curriculum should take account of ‘ the ethnic diversity of the school population and society at large ’ , and draws attention to the principle that as wide a range of children as possible should have access to the whole curriculum . |
| 23 | The plan is to open two more such centres by the end of the year — one in the West , possibly Glasgow , and the other in the North , probably Sterling , to ensure that as wide a geographic coverage as possible is achieved . |
| 24 | However , in a more recent study Nyman and Silberston cast some doubt on the growth of management control , reporting that as high a figure as 56.25 of the top 250 companies in the UK were still controlled by shareholders , and concluding that ‘ the extent of managerial control is more limited than has been thought and may not have an inexorable tendency to increase . |
| 25 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |
| 26 | Cheshire notes that even so a number of alternating items and structures did not occur frequently enough for a quantitative analysis , and some of the frequencies for the variables which were analysed are very low . |
| 27 | It meant that business was devalued relative to the professions so that even now a career in business ranks second in the minds of many new graduates to a career in one of the more established professions . |
| 28 | The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that the cumulative capital cost of protecting developed areas of the United States against the expected sea-level rise by the year 2100 would be $73–111 billion at 1988 prices and that even then an area equivalent to the size of Massachusetts would be lost through flooding ( Gribbin , 1990 ) . |
| 29 | They are popular with parents and it 's no surprise that well over a thousand schools have voted in favour of such status . |
| 30 | The RAC Rally starts in Chester on Sunday … its reckoned that well over a million people will be on route to watch it … sadly its not driving through Central South land this year but we have got cars and crews competing … some good ones to … here they are in our Friday Feature |